The audit concurs with the Implementation Completion Report (ICR) ratings of the Energy Technical Assistance and Rehabilitation Project on a satisfactory project outcome, likely sustainability, and satisfactory performances by both the Bank and Borrower... Voir la suiteThe audit concurs with the Implementation Completion Report (ICR) ratings of the Energy Technical Assistance and Rehabilitation Project on a satisfactory project outcome, likely sustainability, and satisfactory performances by both the Bank and Borrower, yet, it downgrades institutional development impacts to modest; however, regarding the Urban Household Energy Project, the audit upgrades ratings on the project outcome to moderately satisfactory, sustainability to likely, institutional development impacts to modest, and the Borrower's performance to satisfactory, but concurs on an unsatisfactory Bank performance. The following are lessons of experience from implementation of these projects. The objectives of short-term emergency assistance, and medium to long-term institutional development and policy assistance, are sufficiently different that they should be treated in separate operations. The benefits of energy sector reform need to be clearly explained to decision-makers, managers of energy companies, opinion leaders, and the population as a whole, in order to build their ownership and support. Care must be given to adapt the scale and complexity of projects, to ensure that the borrower has the capacity to both manage the projects, and absorb the information, and lessons that are derived from them. Bank supervision teams need to have the necessary range of expertise to deal effectiveIy with the major project components, such as power sector, and biomass energy components. Moving a country from a traditional fuel-based energy system, to one that provides modern energy services to a significant portion of the population, requires a long-term strategy that goes beyond the specifics of any one project.
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